Livy

Titus Livius, known in English as Livy, was born in Patavium, now Padua, in northern Italy, probably in 59 BC. Patavium was then one of the wealthiest cities in Italy, and Livy often wrote of his affection for it. His teenage years were a time of civil wars across the Roman world. Little else is known of his life, except that he was married and had at least one son and one daughter. He was on good terms with the family of the emperor Augustus and encouraged the young Claudius, a future emperor, to write history. Livy spent much of his life writing a history of Rome titled Ab Urbe Condita, From the Founding of the City, in 142 books, beginning with the legends of Aeneas and Romulus and continuing to his own lifetime. Only 35 books survive, including the first ten, which tell the stories of early Rome, and those on the war with Hannibal. Livy wrote vividly, using speeches and moral examples to bring the past to life. He died in Patavium in AD 17.

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Faith: Faith not well documented beyond the Roman religion of his time. Source: Wikipedia